![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, after three years of trial and error and numerous setbacks, the momentous day arrived. ![]() They began in 1901 to make pilgrimages to Kitty Hawk where they had determined the consistently strong winds would be beneficial to their effort. And yet so many strange creatures could fly - birds, fish, insects, reptiles, and even some mammals. “When one said, ‘A man might as well try to fly,’ he expressed the popular notion of impossibility. “We were aware, of course, that people generally knew that it could not be done,” Orville recalled. The full article traces the brothers’ lives from their early days when the inquisitive youths built their own printing press to their young adulthood as bicycle manufacturers. Editor’s note: The following excerpt is taken from “Thus Man Learned to Fly,” a 1928 interview with Orville Wright, published in The Saturday Evening Post on the 25th anniversary of the brothers’ historic first flight. ![]()
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